The yogification of America
How one 19th-century Midwesterner got us all doing the downward dog -- and paved the way for puppy yoga
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Not quite Americans
Sexual assault, enslavement, no medical care -- Peter Orner, author of an oral history of illegal immigrants, discusses the nightmares experienced by this vulnerable population.
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Dive-bar dharma
To attract a new generation of Buddhists, two teachers are replacing the old hippie trappings with a tattooed aesthetic and references to Jay-Z.
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Live girl-on-girl action!
Girls making out with each other to turn on guys is the latest craze at high school and college parties. Is this sexual liberation, or regression?
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The gloom and doom canon
A new book argues that young adult novels are too dark. But should kids be sheltered from the real world?
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It girl gone wild
Abigail Vona's stealing and lying led to a stint in a teen delinquent boot camp. Now 20, she's written a memoir about her experience -- and landed in the gossip pages.
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Sex, lies and the “down low”
Bestselling author J.L. King is the new public face of a not-so-new phenomenon -- "straight" black men who secretly sleep with men. Is he a savior to black women worried about HIV -- or a self-promoter fanning fears of a bisexual black bogeyman?
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One strike and you’re out of school
Youthful suicides, financial ruin, families torn apart for minor infractions: How post-Columbine hysteria is wrecking lives.
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Author and therapist Sheryl Paul explains why wedding planning turns some people into quivering messes.
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My pseu-called life
"Zoe Trope," the 17-year-old author of "Please Don't Kill the Freshman," received a huge advance to write a diary of her angsty and erotically charged high school days.
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The Army be thuggin’ it
The military is teaming up with hip-hop bible the Source to recruit black urban kids with pimped-out Hummers and off-da-hook merchandise.
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The beard, the breasts and the bulge
Kingdom Come, a touring troupe of five of America's most famous drag kings -- complete with strap-ons, leather and one hell of an homage to George Michael -- are taking their act down South.
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Not your mother’s comic book
In her brilliant new novel "Diary of a Teenage Girl," Phoebe Gloeckner's heroine (and alter ego) falls in love with a lesbian junkie, shoots speed and has an affair with her mother's boyfriend.
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